Excerpts from The Family Chao

Lan Samantha Chang’s new novel, The Family Chao, will be published by W. W. Norton in February 2022. She is the author of two previous novels, All Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost and Inheritance, and a story collection, Hunger. Chang’s short stories have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Ploughshares, and The Best American Short Stories. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and the American Academy in Berlin. She lives with her family in Iowa City, where she is director of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.